Face Off edited by David Baldacci
Remember the rock supergroups of the 1970s? Blind Faith; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Derek and the Dominoes; Emerson, Lake and Palmer? Did the whole ever equal the sum of its parts? That’s an argument for another day, but what if a similar collaborative concept…
CIS: William Boyd on James Bond
Sixty-one years after his creation, James Bond lives on through the films starring Daniel Craig, and the enduringly popular books by Ian Fleming. However, a select band of authors have also been working to carry on the spy’s story, including Kingsley Amis (Colonel Sun, 1968),…
Never Go Back by Lee Child
Since the last Jack Reacher novel, A Wanted Man, we’ve had a controversial movie adaptation of One Shot starring Tom Cruise as Reacher, as well as a Kindle short story involving Lee Child’s main man. But for fans of the series, these were mere side…
Hard Road by JB Turner
Jon Reznick is the anti-hero of this conspiracy thriller. His wife was killed in 9/11 and his whole world is his daughter Lauren. He’s tried to keep her as separate as possible from his work both for her safety and to conceal what he does….
Reacher said nothing
The package we’ve been waiting for has arrived. Inside, an uncorrected proof of Never Go Back, the 18th Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Honoured this year with the CWA’s Diamond Dagger Award for his incredibly successful career writing in the genre, it appears as…
Lee Child wins CWA Diamond Dagger 2013
The Crime Writers Association has elected Lee Child its Diamond Dagger winner for 2013. The creator of Jack Reacher has won the award for his outstanding body of work, and in 2012 saw A Wanted Man, his 17th Reacher novel published. At the end of…
Crime fiction on the big screen
Movies inspired by books are not a new thing. Nor is that feeling of: ‘Meh, the book was better.’ It wasn’t quite a Dragon Tattoo year, but even so several big names from the world of crime fiction were committed to the silver screen in…